http://www.chemweek.com Chemical Week en-us 2008 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:25:41 EDT Shell says it has increased its ownership of biofuels technology firm Iogen Energy (Ottawa) to 50%, up from 26.5%, as part of a strategy to accelerate its program to manufacture cellulosic... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/13051.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT DSM says it has acquired "the business and substantially all of the assets" of Valley Research (South Bend, IN), a privately held biotechnology company founded in 1984, which offers a... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/12927.html Fri, 11 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT Cargill says it has broken ground on a $22-million, renewable polyols manufacturing plant at Chicago. The facility will produce Cargill's proprietary soybean-based polyols—an ingredient... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/12882.html Tue, 8 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT Contract fine chemicals firm Lonza (Basel, Switzerland) says it has secured a deal with biotech firm Osiris Therapeutics (Columbia, MD) to manufacture what could be the world’s first stem... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/12796.html Tue, 1 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT Wacker Biotech (Jena, Germany), a subsidiary of Wacker Chemie, says it has signed a licensing agreement with biopharmaceutical company Xoma (Berkeley, CA), to use Xoma’s bacterial cell... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/12613.html Mon, 23 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT Percivia, a biotech research business jointly owned by biotech firm Crucell (Leiden, the Netherlands) and DSM, says it has significantly raised the yield of its mammalian cell-based technology... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/12502.html Mon, 16 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT Wacker Biotech (Jena, Germany), a wholly owned subsidiary of Wacker Chemie, says it has completed a feasibility study demonstrating that the company’s secretion technology can produce... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/12118.html Mon, 26 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Biofilms, or bacterial communities that form on a range of surfaces from water pipes to medical devices in hospital patients, have come under the microscope at BASF. That is because developing... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/12128.html Mon, 26 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The settlement includes a technology swap.... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/12066.html Fri, 23 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Contract manufacturer and pharmaceutical services company Catalent Pharma Solutions (Somerset, NJ) says it plans to more than double its bioreactor capacity by adding a 1,000-liter bioreactor... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/11989.html Mon, 19 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT